I got this nifty little idea from Writer’s Digest. Writing dialogue is hard. There really isn’t any other way to put it. It’s necessary to cut down on character’s speech (keeping out the use of words, such as: So, Um, Uh, Like, Well) because even though it’s how we talk, it definitely doesn’t mean we should write that way.

This is a great tool for learning how to tighten dialogue and it’s going to make for a fun blog hop.

The goal is to write a scene using only dialogue and everything has to be written Twitter style: only 140 characters per dialogue entry. Your post can be as long or short, funny or serious as you’d like. There are no rules other than keeping dialogue to 140 characters. Have your post up by Thursday night and add the link to your post to the linky-link below. The winner will be chosen based on creativity and strength of dialogue, and will win a $10 gift card to Amazon.

Start with a theme: I have a prince who is trying to steal the gold from a dragon.

So, I totally didn’t think I’d have time to do this, but last night, as I was scrounging around for a blog post idea, a scene came to me. Unbidden. That’s when I knew I had to do it, and tada! Wednesday blog post!